Triple

T1012983
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Philco E21863 entity
Predicate developed P73 FINISHED
Object surface-barrier transistor
The surface-barrier transistor is an early high-frequency, high-speed transistor design that used metal contacts formed on a very thin germanium base, enabling faster operation than earlier point-contact and alloy-junction transistors.
E122517 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (4 steps)

Every LLM step that produced this triple, in pipeline order — named-entity classification, the disambiguation choices (the exact options shown, with the pick highlighted), and the generated description. The batch + timestamp of each is in the Provenance table below.

NER Named-entity recognition gpt-5-mini
Instruction
Given a phrase, classify it is english named entity (e.g., persons, organizations, works of art) in Latin script, or not (e.g., literals, dates, URLs, verbose phrases). For disambiguation, the statement where the phrase occurs as object is also given. Please return a JSON object with `phrase` (string, the phrase being analyzed) and `is_ne` (boolean, indicating whether the phrase is a Named Entity).
Input
Phrase: surface-barrier transistor | Statement: [Philco, developed, surface-barrier transistor]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: surface-barrier transistor
Context triple: [Philco, developed, surface-barrier transistor]
  • A. Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory
    Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory was a pioneering Silicon Valley research and development company founded by Nobel laureate William Shockley that became the seed for many later semiconductor firms, including those started by the "traitorous eight."
  • B. Shockley diode equation
    The Shockley diode equation is a fundamental formula in semiconductor physics that describes the current–voltage relationship of an ideal p–n junction diode.
  • C. Transistors Gone Wild
    "Transistors Gone Wild" is a song by the electronic music group The Network, known for its quirky, synth-driven style and satirical edge.
  • D. ASIC
    ASIC is Australia’s national corporate, markets, financial services and consumer credit regulator responsible for enforcing and administering the country’s company and financial services laws.
  • E. Monolithic Memories
    Monolithic Memories was a semiconductor company known for developing programmable read-only memory (PROM) and logic devices after being spun off from Fairchild Semiconductor.
  • F. None of above. chosen
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NEDg Description generation gpt-5.1
Instruction
Generate a one-sentence description of the target entity. 
You are given a context triple in the form (subject, predicate, object), where the object is the target entity. 
# Instructions
Use the triple to infer relevant information about the entity. Describe the entity based on what is most defining, well-known. 
Avoid repeating the information from the triple, unless really essential.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the target entity]"
Input
Entity: surface-barrier transistor
Triple: [Philco, developed, surface-barrier transistor]
Generated description
The surface-barrier transistor is an early high-frequency, high-speed transistor design that used metal contacts formed on a very thin germanium base, enabling faster operation than earlier point-contact and alloy-junction transistors.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: surface-barrier transistor
Target entity description: The surface-barrier transistor is an early high-frequency, high-speed transistor design that used metal contacts formed on a very thin germanium base, enabling faster operation than earlier point-contact and alloy-junction transistors.
  • A. Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory
    Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory was a pioneering Silicon Valley research and development company founded by Nobel laureate William Shockley that became the seed for many later semiconductor firms, including those started by the "traitorous eight."
  • B. Shockley diode equation
    The Shockley diode equation is a fundamental formula in semiconductor physics that describes the current–voltage relationship of an ideal p–n junction diode.
  • C. Transistors Gone Wild
    "Transistors Gone Wild" is a song by the electronic music group The Network, known for its quirky, synth-driven style and satirical edge.
  • D. ASIC
    ASIC is Australia’s national corporate, markets, financial services and consumer credit regulator responsible for enforcing and administering the country’s company and financial services laws.
  • E. Monolithic Memories
    Monolithic Memories was a semiconductor company known for developing programmable read-only memory (PROM) and logic devices after being spun off from Fairchild Semiconductor.
  • F. None of above. chosen

Provenance (5 batches)

The batch behind each pipeline step, in order, with when it ran. Timestamps are batch-level — stages were processed in waves, so the object chain (NER → NED1 → NEDg → NED2) reads in order, but predicate / elicitation batches can sit in a different wave.

Step Stage Batch ID Status When
creating Elicitation batch_69a493c68e24819080ed0ee8bcfd5ce0 completed March 1, 2026, 7:30 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4b7a8b254819089ffed9cb62a6930 completed March 1, 2026, 10:03 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ac3bad654c81909dd59211fafa8b2c completed March 7, 2026, 2:52 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ac3c41ab70819090084c508dbfd295 completed March 7, 2026, 2:54 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ac3cbb30d081909759df25c21eb275 completed March 7, 2026, 2:56 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:41 p.m.